engineer guitarist polyglot yoga-participant former-football-lineman metal-head biz-nass-man/entrepreneur history-buff socialite amateur-psychoanalyst joke-collector goth-club-attendee aspiring-Buddhist burner.

Not as cool as Tony Stark (billionaire genius playboy philanthropist), but working on it.

maintaining www.dubstepfrog.com and occasionally forgetting my own name in the desert.

I have a very expensive piece of paper from a well-known institution claiming that I know physics and robotics. This sometimes causes people to pay me to work very hard for a few weeks at a time to sit in front of a computer and curse at it until it submits to my will.

I did startups for many years, and I'm starting to feel the pull of the startup world again. I don't know how much longer I'll be able to resist the urge to start another company. Probably about a year or two. Before that happens I'd like to visit Southeast Asia, continue learning Russian, get good at writing Haskell, and build more things out of metal. I'm also enjoying my relatively newfound temporal freedom to fully entrench myself in San Francisco.

Johnny Cash
math (Kalman filtering, quaternions)
listening and helping people feel better
languages (Kannst du Deutsch?, loquerisne Latine? )
learning very very quickly

my hair, it's pretty groovy

I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer and am not ashamed of that.

Nietzsche
Ghost in the Shell
Wuthering Heights
Neal Stephenson
Woody Allen
David Lynch
Adventure Time!

last.fm/user/belisarius222

The Doors, Interpol, The Knife, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Rammstein, Nirvana, Offspring, Wintersun, Velvet Underground, Ace of Base, Faun Fables, CCR. MIA is sexy as all hell.

I cook some pretty mean Indian and Thai curries.

heavy metal,
Newcastle,
empathy,
at least one of my guitars,
imaginative conversation,
intimacy (sex, hugs, dancing, massages, etc.)

how to have even more fun
biz-nass
Ontological questioning, such as: could we create new universes in black holes then jump in ... you know, the usual.
pretty ladies

drinks, nerds in warehouses, minor amounts of chaos

I have a hetero life partner named Cody.

... your insanity is generally non-violent
... you enjoy long-lasting close relationships with friends and lovers
... you would like to play some music
... you like batting around ideas, big and small